sit on one's hands

hand

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [hand]
- /sɪt ɒn, ɔn wʌnz hænd/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [hand]
- /sɪt ɒn, ɔn wʌnz hænd/

Definitions of sit on one's hands words

noun sit on one's hands the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb. 1
noun sit on one's hands the corresponding part of the forelimb in any of the higher vertebrates. 1
noun sit on one's hands a terminal prehensile part, as the chela of a crustacean, or, in falconry, the foot of a falcon. 1
noun sit on one's hands something resembling a hand in shape or function, as various types of pointers: the hands of a clock. 1
noun sit on one's hands index (def 8). 1
noun sit on one's hands a person employed in manual labor or for general duties; worker; laborer: a factory hand; a ranch hand. 1

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Origin of sit on one's hands

First appearance:

before 900

One of the 4% oldest English words

before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Dutch, German Hand, Old Norse hǫnd, Gothic handus

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Parts of speech for Sit on one's hands

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

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sit on one's hands popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 100% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

Synonyms for sit on one's hands

verb sit on one's hands

abstain — If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
give up — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
kill time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.

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